Design Quotes · Page 53

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

— Biz Stone

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

— Hesiod

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

— Charles Bass

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

— Isaac Mizrahi

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

— Paula Rego

Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design.

— Janine Turner

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

— Bruce Mau

“My boyfriend likes to fuck my brains out on our kitchen island. Which tile would you recommend for that?”

— Alice Clayton

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a…

— Jack Nicklaus

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

— William H. Whyte

I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design…

— Dawn Richard

We're all naturally curious when we're eight years old. But as most people get older, they become less and less curious, so…

— Ron Miriello

As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you…

— Kazuaki Tanahashi

In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You…

— Nate Berkus

Safety is not just about trying really hard and being really careful. You have to design technology that makes it possible for…

— Jensen Huang

I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why…

— Zach Braff

Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like…

— Garth Ennis

We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live…

— William Kittredge

Game design has always been a secondary passion. I don't know how to program, though, so I'm at this strange crossroads where…

— Thomas Middleditch

The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a…

— Ann Wilson

Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project…

— Edward Mazria

To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we…

— Don DeLillo

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there,…

— Ryan Tedder

It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum.

— Sonia Rykiel

“Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.”

— Richard Diaz

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

— Leonard Baskin

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

— Vivienne Westwood

I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

— Alvin Lustig

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

— Philip Johnson

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

— Robert L. Peters

...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...

— John le Carre

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

— Anonymous

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

— Novalis

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

— Saul Bass

My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism.

— Gauri Khan

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

— John Ruskin

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

— Dorothy Draper

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

— Donald Knuth

“every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.”

— Peter Thiel